For the second time, the new Swiss “Tatort” team went on the hunt for criminals. The investigators Isabelle Grandjean and Tessa Ott had to deal with a tricky family tragedy – and caused the audience to frown.
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Since October 18, 2020, the “Tatort” team from Switzerland has been reassembled. The investigators Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean, played by Carol Schuler and Anna Pieri Zuercher, have been responsible for keeping things tidy in Zurich since then. But the second case, “Chocolate Bar”, was quite the opposite to the praised prelude not so good in the past year. Of course, ARD won the day on Sunday, but with 7.85 million viewers, the thriller reached its worst value so far this year.
The viewers also expressed a lot of criticism over the course of the 90 minute. Various voices can be found on Twitter who mock the case – and pass a harsh judgment. Above all, the family constellation in the story apparently caused confusion and a lot of gallows humor. An example of this is the comment: “I am your mother because my brother, who is your aunt, was the grandfather of your sister-in-law,” which alluded to the fact that the murder victim’s daughter found out in the course of the film that her grandmother is also her mother .
The title of the “crime scene” case was borrowed from Swiss usage: “Schoggilänke” or chocolate life means “born on the sunny side” in High German. There was a lot of malice about that too. Countless puns about candy and chocolate accumulated on Twitter over the course of the film.
One thing quickly became clear in the second “crime scene” with this duo: the two investigators are not yet green. There was a lot of rivalry and tension in the air – that too caused a lack of understanding among the audience. Anna Pieri Zuercher’s character Isabelle Grandjean wants to show that someone from small backgrounds in the French-speaking Swiss province can very well make it in the big city of Zurich. With Tessa Ott, Carol Schuler embodies a woman who wants to free herself from the shackles of her privileged origins. “It was important to me to show that the main characters are ambivalent and multi-layered, with a self-confident femininity and a joy and pride in being a woman,” said director Viviane Andereggen, explaining her staging. But in view of the reactions, none of this apparently helped to score points with the audience.
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